Mom Gifts, Dentist, Foursquare, Minnesota Beardoff

by dez on January 6, 2010 · 4 comments

in Personal, Uncategorized

Mom Gifts

I received a box of crap stuff from my mom for Christmas. Seriously, this stuff is amazingly random.  Here’s the list of stuff that I got.

  • Spongebob Books (because I like Spongebob)
  • Scooby Doo stuffed animal
  • Butterfly keychain calendar (for Megan apparently)
  • Fortune Telling Miracle Dolphin
  • Smurf Pins
    • When my brother and I had chicken pox we both hallucinated smurfs jumping around the room
  • Glass Dolphin Glass Ornament (with santa hat)
  • Flying Pig Glass Ornament
  • Wind-up Fish Tub Toys (Apparently for the cats, but they don’t like them)
  • Flinstone Dinosaur Slime
  • Keychain Activity Book (Complete with mini-colored pencils)
  • Snoman Thing with earrings inside
  • Butterfly Bracelet

Mom also sent some money, and I know she means well, but she’s up in Ambler, Alaska (north of the artic circle) and probably doesn’t have access to non-trinket type stuff.

Dentist

I went to the dentist for the fist time in 7 (yes seven) years. The worst part is that I’ve been paying for dental insurance the entire time and just never went. I got lucky because I was blessed with good teeth (and all dentists have told me this constantly through the years. The dentist office I go to now is able to send me my xrays digitally, which is awesome… to me.

Clockwork & Foursquare

Clockwork recently announced a ban on employee checkins via foursquare. The reason is because they want a non-employee to become mayor of Clockwork. The Clockwork venue on foursquare is here. For more information on what Foursquare is (and isn’t) go here.

Minnesota Beardoff

I’ve registered for the Minnesota Beardoff. I’m going to be participating in the partial beard category and hopefully I’ll be able to think and do something cool with my partial beard. This means that I’m going to let my facial hair grow uncontrolled for the next 3 months. The date of the event is 3/31/10. Details are on the website.

Supporting Video (features random stuff from mom)

Video Link

  • Rob

    Man, I should enter that beard-off. 3 months is not a lot of time to get back up to full strength on my beard from the trimmed down face hugging beard I have now, though.

    Either way, I bet I can crush you, at least. ;-)

    Also, your mom bought some way weird stuff, even for being above the Artic Circle, and for her being, well, her.

    • http://iamdez.com dez

      Register, Rob… NOW :-p

      I asked her if this was going to be a tradition from now on… she said “There was reason behind that stuff” I guess her heart was in the right place.

      • Rob

        Ok, fine, registered. :D

  • http://www.bagsoflove.co.uk/blog/ Gift ideas blog

    It does seem like your mum put quite a lot of time and effort into those gifts! Like the smurf pins, they must have sentimental value to you, so she means well. And money is always good!

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